Reply #23: Ken's right with his statement about the settlements...

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What Ken said was this: 'The settlements serve no truly positive or necessary purpose. They are there for one reason: to make it impossible for Palestinians to form a viable state.'

There is nothing incorrect at all in what he said, and if he'd said 'the reason they were started all those years ago was to make it impossible for Palestinians to form a viable state', he would have been wrong, but he didn't say that. And you appear to be making out that the reasons the settlements began was some nice, innocent one when it wasn't at all. It was the fucked up belief that the West Bank is part of a Greater Israel that drove the settlers back then, but now that a two-state solution is accepted by all but extremists as the only fair and just solution to the conflict, making it impossible for Palestininans to form a viable state is sure as hell one big driving motivation for the wackos...